Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Manute Bol

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

Kevin Martin

Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

Kevin Myers

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

Kenny Marchant

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

Ken Rosenthal

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

Ken Loach

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story.

Ken Mehlman

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Ken Mehlman

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Ken MacLeod

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

Ken Livingstone

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Ken Livingstone

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Ken Livingstone

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Ken Livingstone

Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Kathryn Bigelow

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Kathryn Bigelow

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st century combat.

Kathryn Bigelow

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

Margaret Thatcher

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.